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To: HKMk23; King Prout

Wow! My older boys would love that stuff, but it would be impossible to keep it away from all the other kids!

We like outdoors as much as possible, too. Last weekend we had 10-year-old boy guest (his parents went to a F.A. Hayek symposium ... FReepers :-). On Saturday we went to a park that has an obstacle course, with lots of climbing, and ran them around it until they were ready to drop. Everybody in bed by 8:00, and not a peep out of them!


3,617 posted on 11/11/2005 12:11:50 PM PST by Tax-chick (I'm not being paid enough to worry about all this stuff ... so I don't.)
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To: Tax-chick
I love "no peep" evenings. They're rare around here, even with all of the playing, ballet, and swimming. The kids just adapt too quickly.

Kind of "borg-like", actually.

3,622 posted on 11/11/2005 12:20:32 PM PST by Alice au Wonderland (Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash. - American proverb)
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To: Tax-chick; Alice au Wonderland
... it would be impossible to keep it away from all the other kids!

We've successfully (nearly) trained ours that, if they do not want things broken or played with by The Small One, they must put them away EVERY time they are done playing with them AND in a location inacccessible or unknown to him. Mostly, we have not allowed "mine only" toys, opting for mandatory sharing of almost everything. This has worked out very well, and each child does have a group of items that we have allowed to be designated "special", which means that they do not have to share them. Once an item is dubbed "special" everyone knows that getting a turn with it is "by permission only, or else".

3,643 posted on 11/11/2005 1:04:13 PM PST by HKMk23 (FOR SALE: French Army standard issue infantry rifles. Dropped once. Never fired.)
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